If you watch Netflix as much as we do, you already know about their series Dark. Some people say that the series is similar to Stranger Things since the city where everything happens in this series is a massive part of the mystery in the series.
Read More »Thirteen Locations where the Netflix’s series Dark was filmed around Berlin
During the years where Nick Cave was living in Berlin, back in the 1980s, he was filmed for a Dutch documentary called Stranger in a Strange Land. Produced by Bram van Splunteren for the Dutch TV channel VPRO, you get a glimpse of the life of Nick Cave in Berlin even though some parts of the movie are voice-over in dutch. But you don’t need to worry about it, all the interviews with Nick Cave are in English.
Risiko was a legendary bar & club in the West Berlin of 1980’s, and Uli M. Schueppel did a short film about its last morning, all the way back in 1986. The footage captures and documents a little piece of Berlin history with a cover of Lost in Music by Anita Lane and Alex Harvey as the soundtrack of this movie shot in Super8.
Read More »Last Morning of Risiko, one of Berlin’s legendary bars from the 1980’s
Imagine that you could find the spirit and the soul of a neighborhood. This is one of the themes behind Neukölln Wind, a movie about a changing neighborhood and how gentrification can change a place.
Read More »Neukölln Wind – A movie about a changing neighborhood
Lola Rennt or Run Lola Run is an amazing German movie with a simple premise. In the film, a woman must find 100.000 Deutsche Mark in 20 minutes, or her boyfriend will be shot. This woman is Lola, played by Franka Potente, and she runs through Berlin trying to find the sum of money to replace what her drug-dealing boyfriend lost in the subway.
The Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf is a huge abandoned factory in Rüdersdorf, a small town close to Berlin. The factory started its life in 1899 as a cement factory, and through the years, it has produced bauxite, animal feed, and phosphates for farming purposes. All of this is in the past.
This huge abandoned factory is standing still without any practical use.
Read More »Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf: An Abandoned Chemical Factory close to Berlin
Before I moved to Berlin in 2012, if I closed my eyes and thought about… Read More »B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin in the 80s
I decided to spend my last vacation days at the end of August going to places I always thought about going but never manage to go. The most interesting of all those places were visiting Krampnitz.
Read More »Our Visit to Krampnitz in August 2013